About Injoy Yoga and Massage

2023
(under construction)
Marina Locke, RMT, RYT(500), CST, Doula
My journey towards healing, massage, martial arts, yoga and eastern traditions began in my teens and continues to take me around the world. I started massaging people when I was 12 and baked bread weekly. Those strong hands soon found people enjoyed being "kneaded". My professional massage career began in 1988. I had a natural curiosity about health, healing and herbal remedies and was making my own tinctures and teas throughout my early life inspired by the cupboard of herbs at my grandmother's house, reading herbal books and learning from a Cree friend. The first encounter with Yogic traditions was when I read "Autobiography of a Yogi" at age 15, introduced to me by a high school psychology teacher who also taught me guided meditation. It changed my life and introduced me to conscious evolution. An older brother was a karate Sensei, and he introduced me to Eastern disciplines and self directed meditation (Zazen). Beginning in my early twenties, through a series of serendipitous events, I had the privilege of studying with a meditation Master and Mantra Rishi, attending local and overseas meditation retreats for up to 6 weeks a year for the past 30+ years. It wasn't until I attended my first hatha yoga teacher training that I had the realization that the meditation I was practicing was actually part of the Yogic path. At the time, most mainstream yoga classes emphasized only the physical aspects (breath and postures) without connecting them to the more subtle and advanced practices (meditation). There have been many teacher trainings since my first, including the IYTA (Australia) 2 year Yoga teacher course, and the IYTA (Australia) 18 month Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga teacher training. As a perpetual and curious student, I continue to study and practice. I use my extensive Yoga study as a remedial exercise tool to assist my main career as a Massage Therapist and as self care that has kept me healthy all these years. I have gone back to the genius of the Iyengar method, which has proven to support body changes and adapt to issues.

My massage career spans 30+ years, beginning in Canada where I maintain professional membership for teaching purposes. In 1994 I opened a clinic in the Peter Lougheed Hospital in Calgary on the maternity floor. It was the first massage clinic of its' kind in Canada, committed to working with pregnant and postnatal women. Soon after opening the clinic, I began attending births as a Doula, taught Infant Massage, and traveled internationally teaching a series of courses called Mother Wellness (later becoming Mother and Baby Wellness) and continue to do so. From 1996 I also worked 7 years for Canadian Mountain Holidays in the Selkirks and Monashee mountain ranges of British Columbia (heli-hiking/heli-skiing) providing 60+ massages/week. Recently I have enjoyed doing a locum for the beautiful Maruia Hot Springs resort in NZ, and sometimes working 10 hours/day.

I have also worked directly with a wide variety of health professionals in various clinics in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

These are a few of the Professional development trainings I have attended:
2022 - RAPID neurofascial techniques for upper and lower body
2021 - RIMYI Yoganushasnam online (6hrs)
2021 - RIMYI Remembering Geeta Iyengar yoga online (3hrs)
2021 - Online tension headache pain seminar with Colin Connor
2021 - Anatomy review, online training by Sue Hallas
2021 - RIMYI Back to Basics - Iyengar Yoga online workshops
2020 - Yoga Association of Alberta online workshops
2020 - Iyengar Yoga workshop with Anne Marie Tweedie, Christchurch, NZ
2020 - Visceral Manipulation 2 (refresher), Barrel Institute, Christchurch, NZ
2019 - Assistant Instructor, Orthopedic Assessment and Dynamic Cupping, Seminars for Health, Canada
2019 - Pelvic floor study participant, AUT Physiotherapy study, Auckland
2019 - Spinning Babies workshop with Claire Eccleston in Christchurch
2019 - Visceral Manipulation 3, Barrel Institute, Christchurch, NZ
2019 - Iyengar Yoga workshop with Monica Haar, Christchurch, NZ
2019 - 1 week Yoga intensive, West End Yoga, Brisbane, Australia
2019 - Visceral Manipulation 1a (refresher), Barrel Institute, Christchurch, NZ
2019 - Registered Pelvic Floor Safe Professional (Continence NZ), Auckland
2001 to Present - attended up to 8 weeks/year of meditation retreats and workshops in NZ, Canada and Europe
2018 - Orthopedic Assessment Intensive, Seminars for Health, Calgary, Canada
2018 - Dynamic Cupping, Seminars for Health, Calgary, Canada
2018 - Yoga intensive, 40 days of Yoga, Calgary, Canada
2018 - iRest, Neal Ghoshal, Christchurch, NZ
2017 - Senior Yoga teacher certification acknowledgement, Yoga Association of Alberta, Canada
2014 - Pre and Postnatal Yoga TT (18 months), IYTA Australia, Sydney, AU
2011 - Trauma Release, Auckland and Christchurch, NZ
2011 - Anatomy and Physiology refresher, Wellpark College, Auckland, NZ
2009 - Neurostructural Integration Techniques (Bowen), Ron Phalen, Auckland, NZ
2008 - Assessment techniques with Dr. David Magee, Red Deer, Canada
2007 - Craniosacral Post Graduate Certificate (375hrs), Wellpark College, Auckland, NZ
2007 - Anatomy Trains, Thomas Myers, Winnipeg, Canada
2006-2011 Massage Tutor/Teacher, Wellpark College of Natural Health, Auckland, NZ
2005-6 - Attended all massage classes and Yoga Therapy class at Wellpark College as Head of the Massage Faculty to restructure and successfully obtain international accreditation for that school. Auckland, NZ
2004 - Visceral Manipulation 1b, Upledger Institute, Calgary, Canada
2003 - Visceral Manipulation 1a, Craniosacral 1, Upledger Institute, Calgary, Canada
2001 - Overcoming Pelvic Floor Dysfunction and Prolapse, Dr. Bernadette de Gasquet, Calgary, Canada
2001 - Completed IYTA Australia and Yoga Alliance (500RYT) approved 18 month yoga teacher training through South Okanagan Yoga Association (SOYA)
2000 - Gloria Lemay's Wise Women Way of Birth, Calgary, Canada
2000 - Midwife Assistant training with Ina May Gaskin, The Farm, Tennessee
1998 - Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training at The Yoga Studio, Calgary, Canada
and many dozens of trainings and experiential learning before this time including:
Sports Massage and Orthopaedic Assessment with Dr. Myk Hungerford
Russian Sports Massage with Zhenya Kurashova Wine
Assistant Instructor to Prem Singh for 750 hour RMT training at Mt. Royal College, Calgary

"When the Heart has acquired stillness, it will look upon the heights and depths of knowledge and the intellect, once quieted, will be given to hear wonderful things from God." - Hesychios